Imagine Flying

04/17/2025

Imagine Flying provides the highest quality training around the world, wherever pilots need top expertise. It looks like now we do a great job teaching, among other things, precise Cirrus landings on short runways in Australia. The understanding of energy management is the key.

Cirrus SR22 short field approach to Southport, Australia.

03/26/2025

On Imagine Flying crew flying day 11 (pretty much around the world), the SR22 we’re ferrying made it from Nagpur, India, via Chattogram, Bangladesh, to Bangkok, Thailand – a distance of 1,700 nm.

We experienced exceptionally well-organized and friendly airport staff in Chattogram (VGEG) and even made some new friends – the crew of AirAstra’s ATR, who, after landing from Dhaka boarding, rushed across the tarmac to shake our hands. We were even offered coffee and meals – thank you, gentlemen; we were truly touched!

Our fellow pilots hinted, “Expect GPS spoofing over Myanmar,” so we weren’t surprised when we had to rely on classic VOR-based radio navigation for more than two and a half hours.

03/23/2025

In 10 flying days, the Imagine Flying crew in a Cirrus SR22 reached Nagpur, India, from Las Vegas, NV—66% of our total route to the Gold Coast, Australia. Our last stop before Nagpur was a quick refueling stop at OPKC in Karachi, Pakistan—a place not often visited by GA aircraft in general and with N-registrations specifically. Refueling there is very different from what we’re used to in FBOs: avgas in drums, manual fuel pumps, and six police officers—some armed with long guns—monitoring every interaction with the locals. It felt like an Indiana Jones-style adventure, and there’s more to come.

03/18/2025

Our logs show that with our landing in Hurghada, Egypt, we’ve covered 49.43% of our planned route from Vegas to the Gold Coast. Everything is changing step by step. Since Greenland, we’ve been using hectopascals instead of inches of mercury, and since halfway to Stavanger, Norway, we’ve had 8.33 MHz radio separation. Heat and thunderstorms are becoming a bigger concern than cold and ice. The concept of general aviation is changing—what we know from the US, Europe, or Australia is completely different here. Now, we’re shuttled by 100-person airport buses from the plane to the terminal building, our route is dictated by the availability of avgas, and every move requires a permit. People remain super friendly and enthusiastic about what we do.

03/18/2025

Congratulations, Maks Borowiak, on your first transatlantic flight in an SR22—just two months after earning your instrument rating with Imagine Flying in Jacksonville, FL. The sky is the limit!

03/15/2025

In the last 24 hours, we’ve covered a lot of ice and water. We crossed Greenland yesterday with a refueling stop in Kangerlussuaq. After experiencing -23°C in Iqaluit, -3°C in Greenland felt like a wave of heat.

I’ve landed at various airports in Greenland before, but this place on Earth displays all the shades of blue and white. No matter how many pictures you’ve taken here, you’ll always feel the need to take more. After landing in Reykjavik, Iceland, our spreadsheet showed that we completed 23.45% of our planned route from Las Vegas, NV to the Gold Coast, Australia. We keep flying - Stavanger, Norway and Poznan, Poland today.

03/14/2025

On day 4. we moved to CYFB (Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada) - The airport’s single paved runway is over 2,600 m long, built on sturdy permafrost ground, allowing it to accommodate anything from piston planes, like us to the largest intercontinental jets. In fact, Iqaluit’s airfield is positioned at the crossroads of polar flight paths – an ideal emergency diversion site and testing ground for aircraft in extreme cold.

The views on landing are truly breathtaking!

03/13/2025

Thanks to Starlink onboard, we can share live from the cockpit. On Day 4 of flying, after reaching Goose Bay yesterday, we are now heading to Iqaluit, Canada's smallest provincial/territorial capital, with a population of just 7,429 residents as of 2021. Despite its small size, it is the largest community in Nunavut by far (and the only one with city status) and also holds the title of Canada's most northerly capital city. While other settlements exist much farther north, no other capital (provincial or territorial) is at such a high latitude. We will be landing in CYFB in 4 hours.

03/09/2025

So here’s our summary for Day 1 and Day 2. We flew across the entire United States from Henderson, NV to Burlington, VT. We battled a lot of weather on Day 1 and enjoyed blue skies on Day 2. Everything would have been perfect if our Cirrus hadn’t reported an ALT2 fail 45 minutes before landing in Burlington, VT. We’re pretty sure the skilled folks at Heritage Aviation will get us back on track tomorrow!

03/08/2025

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”, right?

So here’s the plan for the next couple of days. I flew a Vision Jet from the United States to Australia eastbound some time ago. Thanks to my great friends, business partners, and students from Australia—who never stop trusting me—I have the chance to do something far more challenging. Let’s raise the bar: 16,000 nm around the world in an unpressurized, normally aspirated Cirrus SR22. Thirty steps from Las Vegas to Gold Coast, AUS —one 600 nm (or so) step at a time. Hello Australia, here we come!

Stay tuned for more updates on this steady adventure.